Neuroscientist Claims She Was Studied for Psychic Abilities in Secret Government Program
"They were testing me for psychic abilities and for IQ tests. I took like 30 IQ tests both in the school and outside of the school. There were these weekly meetings with a counselor. As soon as I close that door, I don't remember anything. The one-on-one session happens. I close the door. Now I remember, oh, here I am. But I remember not remembering what was in the room."
About this episode
In this episode, host Julian Dorey interviews cognitive neuroscientist Julia, who reveals her experience as an unwitting subject in what she believes was a classified government program studying psychic abilities and radiation effects in gifted children. Julia recounts being enrolled in seventh grade in SOAR (Students on Active Research), a program where she underwent weekly counseling sessions she cannot remember, was given unexplained chalky pink drinks, subjected to strange hearing tests with tones, and tested with Zener cards for telepathy. When she requested her school records decades later for a federal security clearance, all teacher comments from grades 1-8 were completely redacted. Her mother, without prompting, confirmed intelligence agencies had been studying her. Julia connects her selection to her maternal grandparents' work at a Department of Energy uranium plant, theorizing researchers were studying whether radiation exposure creates heritable psychic mutations. After moving to Washington DC and filing a FOIA request about SOAR, she experienced coordinated interference including a suspicious job recruitment call exactly three minutes after withdrawing her request. Julia also discusses scientific research by Morris Friedman showing stroke victims with left frontal lobe damage can move objects with their minds above chance rates, suggesting the left hemisphere normally suppresses psychic abilities. The conversation touches on multiple intelligence types, precognitive dreams, and her father's severe OCD and abusive behavior. Julia founded the Institute for Love and Time to develop therapeutic technologies and advocates for disclosure through personal truth-telling rather than waiting for institutional acknowledgment.
Key takeaways
- Julia claims she was enrolled without parental consent in SOAR, a program testing children for psychic abilities, and her school records from grades 1-8 were later completely redacted.
- Her mother confirmed without prompting that intelligence agencies had been studying Julia, whose maternal grandparents worked at a Department of Energy uranium processing facility.
- Julia received a federal job recruitment call exactly three minutes after withdrawing a FOIA request about the SOAR program, suggesting coordinated monitoring.
- Morris Friedman's research at Baycrest shows left frontal stroke patients can move on-screen arrows with their minds above chance, suggesting the left hemisphere suppresses psychic abilities.
- Julia theorizes radiation exposure can create heritable genetic mutations that enhance psychic capacities across generations, making her a research target.
- The SOAR program originated near Savannah River National Lab and a 1968 Defense Nuclear Security Agency memo mandated human radiation studies.
- Julia advocates for personal disclosure narratives rather than waiting for institutional transparency, founding the Institute for Love and Time for trauma healing technology.